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PASTOR GENERAL'S REPORT, June 27, 1980
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I graduated from Houston High School on May 12, 1980, as valedicto
rian of my class. I used THE SEVEN LAWS OF SUCCESS as the backbone
of my speech.
I wrote two speeches. For my first speech I received information
from one of Zig Ziglar's books. The whole speech was boring, and
most important, without God. I was under a lot of pressure the last
days of school. However-:-my daddy made me realize that I should use
Mr. Armstrong's pamphlet. So, one night I stayed up late and wrote
an entirely different speech.
If the Supreme God of this universe had not given me the mind, the
willpower, or the help, I could never have achieved such an honor.
I would like to thank Mr. Armstrong for writing such an inspiring
pamphlet. Thank you, Mr. Armstrong.
--Patricia G. (Houston, MS)
ON THE WORLD SCENE
EUROPE LEARNS TO WALK World affairs will not be quite the same after the
"Venice I" and "Venice II" summit conferences.
Venice I was the June 12 and 13 meeting of the heads of government of the
nine European Common Market countries. At that conference, "the Nine"
boldly stepped into the Middle East breach with a united foreign policy
of their own. "Venice I," noted TIME magazine in its June 23 issue, "had
delivered up an important new player on the Middle East chessboard:
Europe."
Then, at Venice II, ten days later, leading members of the Common Market,
along with Japan and Canada, met with President Carter at a time in his
tory which marks, according to Los Angles Times correspondent Don Cook,
"the fading away of 35 years of�postwar era in which American leader
ship predominated." Little was accomplished at the seven-power economic
summit, largely because positions taken by Washington and its free world
allies now are so divergent.
First Step the Hardest
The long-time diplomatic correspondent for The Christian Science Monitor,
Joseph C. Harsch, has this to say of the rather sudden emergence of an
independent-minded Europe: ''The time has come for others to notice, and
take account of, an important new feature on the world scene. The West
Europeans have foreign policies of their own...."
"In other words," continues Harsch, "the West European countries are no
longer satellites of the United States in world affairs. They are friends.
They are associates. They are allies.... But Europe has, in effect,
asserted its independence in matters where it thinks its own interests
dictate a difference from Washington."
Western Europe, maintains Harsch, is still a long way from forming and
pursuing a major body of independent policy in world affairs. But Harsch
could be wrong on this point. Such independent policy could coalesce a